Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e16c2905390ea3e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 11:57:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c03da24dc90e4ede7f8aabec5d5359af SHA-1: 66ee5d97cc0fa6f258813cc8267294ed8357d577 SHA-256: e16c2905390ea3e0e6a7922957163605e2461ce18bc11928a0ac3b3c8649e67d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c95a58b07a82f6051d451fa2df7cc48/tupobi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://graviroz.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xabesafolikadadutorafipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4a4f9c8c88---nuranulunofinej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f433878ac0---78553641744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1272335d91---molilaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fff54ea5435e324f382797e20a3da849/78428689074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalzilembo.it/userfiles/files/16727697269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://permianhighschool1970.com/clients/e/ef/efee9fcbc667252fc4b649c8163d3733/File/91021707337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/xomigitelupabipedixapumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c557be504f7---zarurabipikoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/satatojizewiguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608156cc52e47---zodimijomolewikeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tractorpulling-emmeloord.nl/upload/file/21963551092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bauarch.bg/files/31246689320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakwanudang.com/contents//files/fomev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1a3d5drdcp41gmohio0l6dkrl/tokulerar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/vunelusobiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0989183001620478305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43232945463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/nubofagezutagalomoven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75030c7eb0fa19aa978a01c588dfd68e/zunugute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j6c92ojeje9cou7eg07pioc4b4/75387193130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novitas.ro/files/21928815635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myjobcareer.net/userfiles/file/2021071014173673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=titration+real+world+applicationPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD38 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f54a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF54A 17828 bytes
SHA-256: 438a4d51b137560cb5c73af54bb1ad2ea13c911e5dfc401a72842daa106b8082
font_02_sfnt_off00012405.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12405 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 27c7b2414b5e0b46bc6feea4e71d4e2f00640186ea3a905a8487b4525ba180dc